TYW/ECW Guns

[nickthegreek]

Hello All,
As I pick up on my benched TYW army using Bicorne & Renegade. I’m looking for some substantial artillery pieces that will be used as heavy/siege.
Now I know Bicorne have some great guns but are quite pricey, could I use the Northstar 1672 or Front Rank 18th C guns instead?

[tin shed gamer]

Have a browse through the 1st corps miniatures TYW and ECW.They've released a fair few.

[Sparrow]

Assault Group?

[Arthur]

The TAG guns are pretty much in the same price range as the Bicorne ones - more expensive even as a TAG Saker or Culverin will set you back 12 quid as opposed to 10 for a Bicorne one. The Bicorne models aren't cheap but they are some of the nicest ECW/TYW artillery pieces around.

1st Corps are certainly an option as stated above :

http://1stcorps.co.uk/product-category/horse-musket/english-civil-war/artillery/

And although their guns are aimed at a slightly later period, Warfare have a couple of useful positional guns that will fit the bill if you aren't too picky about dates :

http://www.leagueofaugsburg.com/shop/products-subcat-29-1.html

The venerable Hinchliffe range is also available from Hinds Figures and features an ECW 'cannon royale' that may be of interest to you :



http://www.hindsfiguresltd.com/Hinchliffe.html

 

[Sparrow]

If you want to get the really accurate ones go for Empress - they are the dogs cajones ( although I am a bit biased!).

http://www.empressminiatures.com/userimages/procart39.htm

[Paul Richardson]

Imho that Hinchliffe cannon royale looks pretty good. A friend of mine used to design artillery pieces for Hinchliffe when he was young. I 'll have to ask him whether that's one of his.

[Sparrow]

The Hinchcliffe Cannon Royale was a fantastic piece in its day (the one I still own is very much cherished) but I think it’s actually  too small for the gun it’s meant to depict? To be honest a saker is normally the largest ECW Artillery piece you’d see on most battlefields (although there are some exceptions, e.g Essex took a very well equipped trayne with him on the Gloucester campaign for example). Sieges, well, that’s another thing entirely!

What was it Hyde said about the King’s Artillery trayne ? The “sponge that can never be satisfied “?

(PS Paul, still drooling over your TYW figures! Fantastically inspirational!)

[nickthegreek]

Thank you all for the helpful suggestions.
With the larger scale of the Bicorne crew this is a consideration.
I have a 1672 siege gun that I’ll have a play with.
The Cannon Royale looks great with all of that additional detail, which might go well with a Catholic League/Imperialist army.